Is it Nicaragua that is “weaponizing” immigration? – or is it Washington?
Claims that Nicaragua is “weaponizing” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the U.S. border have been appearing regularly in the media over the last twelve months. The claim was made on NPR in January, in the Associated Press last October, in El Pais last November and by the BBC this July, to cite […]
The US has imposed sanctions on Georgia and Nicaragua for instituting laws that copy U.S. legislation and were designed to ward off coups
Politicians in the small Caucasian state of Georgia have been sanctioned by Washington for “undermining democracy” and depriving Georgian people of “fundamental freedoms”, simply because its parliament has passed a law to control foreign influence over Georgian politics. Politicians in another small country, Nicaragua, were subjected to U.S. sanctions doing the same. Although the two […]
The CAFTA treaty and the prospect of new US sanctions against Nicaragua
A briefing for the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, June 2024 Draft legislation currently passing through the United States Congress appears to conflict with an important US trade treaty. A bill (S.1818, the ill-named “Restoring Sovereignty and Human Rights in Nicaragua Act”) has passed with amendments through the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. A similar bill (H.R.6954), […]
When Nicaragua Took Germany to Court, Media Put Nicaragua in the Dock
When Nicaragua accused Germany of aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last month, readers of corporate media might have seriously wondered whether Nicaragua’s case had any legitimacy. The case targeted Germany as the second biggest supplier of arms to Israel, because the US, Israel’s biggest supplier, does […]
UN Human Rights Council Is Lending Support To US Regime Change Plans
Above photo: The “roadblocks of death” strangled the country’s transport system and became the scene of intimidation, robberies, rape, kidnappings and murder. Here we see armed roadblock operators south of Estelí, several with conventional weapons. Human rights experts and activists are expressing concern over a flawed and seriously unbalanced report of the Group of Human […]
Germany buries the evidence of complicity in genocide: Nicaragua exposes it
Last Thursday, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, the British-Palestinian war surgeon, gave his first address as the newly-appointed rector of Glasgow University, chosen in recognition of his work at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. The following day he flew to Berlin, where he had been invited to address a major conference about Palestine. On arrival he was taken […]
UN Human Rights Council again supports US regime change plans for Nicaragua
Alfred de Zayas and John Perry When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices. But other commissions can become political platforms […]
The “Human Rights Industry” and Nicaragua
Why do United Nations’ human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity?
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Nicaragua’s Finance Minister details how US sanctions impact Nicaragua’s poor
Is it true that 50% of Nicaraguans want to leave their country owing to a climate of repression and economic decline, supposedly resulting from socialist policies? This was the allegation in a report published by AmericasBarometer, a research agency based at Vanderbilt University, which failed to note that its previous forecast, that 30% of Nicaraguans […]
Mission accomplished! Members of a cooperative in Nicaragua build their own homes
An article written by Winnie Narváez Herrera, Facilitator at ÁBACOenRed /FUPECG, and edited/translated by John Perry. In Latin America, the problem of housing quality is even more serious than the problem of not having a home, and this is made worse by the increasing effects of climate change, violence in some parts of the region […]
John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on